Oficio is a traditional printing workshop located in Godella (Valencia)
where Lola works on the "recovery of movable types for printing small stationery
items, taking as a source of inspiration the typographic tradition in the first
half of the 20th century", as she tells on her blog.

Last
week I had chance to visit her along with Sunny, from Oh So Sunny!, thanks to
Sophie, from XaruXamú. I don’t have much knowledge about this subject, if any.
But I love works on paper, specially printing. I read everything I can and
enjoy seeing the works by Paper Runaway, Discover Paper, Ellinée, Poppy Talk or
Papelidades. So you can imagine the pleaure it was for me to go to her
workshop, especially because she explained to us her work with every detail: how
the machines worked, the use of inks, tools and techniques, her creative
process... with an infectious passion. The same she uses for writing her lovely
blog, you have to read it.

This
profession, as many other handmade jobs, is dissapearing. It’s too costly compared
with digital printing and in Spain quality paper is not genereally used in
daily life. But it has really a great artistic and handcrafted value,
appreciated just after seeing Lola's work. It’s a pleasure to touch the reliefs
on her cards, to watch the colors of her inks and the beauty of her letters, to
stop in every detail of her elegant albums...

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